Re: Make COUNT(*) Faster?

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:08:03PM +0200, PFC wrote:
> 
> 
> >which wouldn't have helped.)  If true, I can handle that parsing myself
> >easily enough without exposing RelationGetNumberOfBlocks.
> 
>     Is there a way to get EXPLAIN results in a non-text-formatted way 
>     for  easier use ?
>     I'm asking, because it seems the feature set grows by the minute in  
> posgres nowadays...

Not yet, but a friend of mine was working on a patch to make it output
in a custom XML format, to be able to create a tool similar to Redhat's
Visual Explain.  I expect he will show up in pgsql-hackers sometime ...

In spanish: http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/weblog/archives/000397.html

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